Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Content
- Introduction to Woolf and the Natural World
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Ecofeminism, Holism, and the Search for Natural Order in Woolf
- “We Make Life”: Vibration, Aesthetics, and the Inhuman in The Waves
- “The Real World”: Virginia Woolf and Ecofeminism
- Virginia and Leonard, as I Remember Them
- “Everything tended to set itself in a garden”: Virginia Woolf's Literary and Quotidian Flowers: A Bar-Graphical Approach
- Taking Her Fences: The Equestrian Virginia Woolf
- The Metaphysics of Flowers in The Waves: Virginia Woolf's “Seven-Sided Flower” and Henri Bergson's Intuition
- Crowding Clarissa's Garden
- The Flesh of Citizenship: Red Flowers Grew
- The Besieged Garden: Nature in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Willa Cather's One of Ours
- Virginia Woolf: Natural Olympian: Swimming and Diving as Metaphors for Writing
- “This, I fancy, must be the sea”: Thalassic Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's Writing
- Wild Swimming
- The Woolf, the Horse, and the Fox: Recurrent Motifs in Jacob's Room and Orlando
- The Dogs that Therefore Woolf Follows: Some Canine Sources for A Room of One's Own in Nature and Art
- “The Bird is the Word”: Virginia Woolf and W.H. Hudson, Visionary Ornithologist
- Evolution, History, and Flush; or, The Origin of Spaniels
- “Lappin and Lapinova”: A Woolf in Hare's Clothing?
- “A Certain Hold on Haddock and Sausage”: Dining Well in Virginia Woolf's Life and Work
- Moments of Aging: Revising Mother Nature in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
- Homeless in Nature: Solitary Trampings and Shared Errantry in Cornwall, 1905
- “Walking over the bridge in a willow pattern plate”: Virginia Woolf and the Exotic Landscapes
- Mining with the Head: Virginia Woolf, Henry David Thoreau, and Exploring the Self Through Nature
- Virginia Woolf as Mountaineer
- “It was an uncertain spring”: Reading Weather in The Years
- Transforming Nature: Orlando as Elegy
- “Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us”: Digging Granite and Chasing Rainbows with Virginia Woolf
- Sundered Waters: Isolated Consciousness and Ostensible Communion in Woolf's Narration
- “To give the moment whole”: The Nature of Time and Cosmic (Comm)unity in Virginia Woolf's The Waves
- Spengler's The Decline of the West and Intellectual Quackery: Checking the Climate with Leonard Woolf and W.B Yeats
- Listening-in, Tuning Out: Leonard Woolf's Criticism of the BBC During the 1930s
- Notes on Contributors
- Conference Program
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List of Abbreviations
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Content
- Introduction to Woolf and the Natural World
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Ecofeminism, Holism, and the Search for Natural Order in Woolf
- “We Make Life”: Vibration, Aesthetics, and the Inhuman in The Waves
- “The Real World”: Virginia Woolf and Ecofeminism
- Virginia and Leonard, as I Remember Them
- “Everything tended to set itself in a garden”: Virginia Woolf's Literary and Quotidian Flowers: A Bar-Graphical Approach
- Taking Her Fences: The Equestrian Virginia Woolf
- The Metaphysics of Flowers in The Waves: Virginia Woolf's “Seven-Sided Flower” and Henri Bergson's Intuition
- Crowding Clarissa's Garden
- The Flesh of Citizenship: Red Flowers Grew
- The Besieged Garden: Nature in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Willa Cather's One of Ours
- Virginia Woolf: Natural Olympian: Swimming and Diving as Metaphors for Writing
- “This, I fancy, must be the sea”: Thalassic Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf's Writing
- Wild Swimming
- The Woolf, the Horse, and the Fox: Recurrent Motifs in Jacob's Room and Orlando
- The Dogs that Therefore Woolf Follows: Some Canine Sources for A Room of One's Own in Nature and Art
- “The Bird is the Word”: Virginia Woolf and W.H. Hudson, Visionary Ornithologist
- Evolution, History, and Flush; or, The Origin of Spaniels
- “Lappin and Lapinova”: A Woolf in Hare's Clothing?
- “A Certain Hold on Haddock and Sausage”: Dining Well in Virginia Woolf's Life and Work
- Moments of Aging: Revising Mother Nature in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
- Homeless in Nature: Solitary Trampings and Shared Errantry in Cornwall, 1905
- “Walking over the bridge in a willow pattern plate”: Virginia Woolf and the Exotic Landscapes
- Mining with the Head: Virginia Woolf, Henry David Thoreau, and Exploring the Self Through Nature
- Virginia Woolf as Mountaineer
- “It was an uncertain spring”: Reading Weather in The Years
- Transforming Nature: Orlando as Elegy
- “Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us”: Digging Granite and Chasing Rainbows with Virginia Woolf
- Sundered Waters: Isolated Consciousness and Ostensible Communion in Woolf's Narration
- “To give the moment whole”: The Nature of Time and Cosmic (Comm)unity in Virginia Woolf's The Waves
- Spengler's The Decline of the West and Intellectual Quackery: Checking the Climate with Leonard Woolf and W.B Yeats
- Listening-in, Tuning Out: Leonard Woolf's Criticism of the BBC During the 1930s
- Notes on Contributors
- Conference Program
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- Virginia Woolf and the Natural World , pp. xiiPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011